Despite users attempting to utilize Facebook to connect and communicate with individuals and organizations of interest, Facebook has turned its features against users, insidiously manipulating their timelines to show selected posts and updates while soft censoring others to manage public perception. Studies have even been published proving the effectiveness of Facebooks unethical social engineering. In one study, the emotions of users were successfully manipulated by selectively posting only negative or only positive posts from individuals or organizations on users contact lists. A report published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) titled, Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks, stated in its abstract that (emphasis added): We show, via a massive (N = 689,003) experiment on Facebook, that emotional states can be transferred to others via emotional contagion, leading people to experience the same emotions without their awareness. We provide experimental evidence that emotional contagion occurs without direct interaction between people (exposure to a friend expressing an emotion is sufficient), and in the complete absence of nonverbal cues. Not only are the findings troubling - illustrating that Facebook possesses the ability to influence the emotions of its users unwittingly through careful manipulation of their news feeds - but the invasive, unethical methods by which Facebook conducted the experiment are troubling as well. In another experiment Facebook manipulated the news feed of some 2 million Americans in 2012 in order to increase public participation during that years US presidential election. Image: US State Departments Movement.org helped train hundreds of operatives years ahead of US-backed subversion across the Arab World in 2011. Among the many sponsors of this program is Facebook and Google. Facebook was also an official sponsor of the US State Departments training program preparing political subversion across North Africa and the Middle East years before the so-called Arab Spring unfolded. The very activists audiences around the world were told spontaneously sprung up across North Africa and the Middle East were in fact trained, funded, and equipped by the US State Department and various corporations including tech giants Google and Facebook years beforehand.
Posted on: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 02:14:16 +0000
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